Britain better fix its identity crisis fast - or risk a disastrous Brexit

2 sources of identity crises: Tension between what we imagine ourselves as being and what we are

There are lots of productive ways to analyse Brexit – why it happened, how it’s developing, and how it might turn out. One of the most interesting is to use the idea of an identity to understand both why the process is proving so painful for the UK, and also why the rest of Europe still seems so confused about why the UK is engaging in this process at all.

Identity is one of those concepts that we’re all familiar with on the surface, but would probably struggle to define. Here, we’re going to define